Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] iio: adc: add Nuvoton NCT7201 ADC driver

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:09:16 +0800
Eason Yang <j2anfernee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Eason,

Not sure if I asked this before, but this is a device that seems
to be typically used for hardware monitoring and there are a number
of similar sounding device in drivers/hwmon/  

That raises a couple of questions:
1) Is it compatible with any of those existing drivers?
2) Why IIO rather than HWMON?

There isn't normally a problem with having a hardware monitoring
related device supported by IIO, it is just good to know if your
usecase makes that a good idea.  We have the iio-hwmon bridge
driver to solve the problem of a device than can be used either
as a generic ADC or as a hwmon type monitoring device (which tends
to have more alarms etc)

Jonathan


> Change since version 4:
>  - Fix comments
>  - Add interrupts and reset-gpios to the DT example
>  - Use the FIELD_PREP and FIELD_GET
>  - Add use_single_write in regmap_config
>  - Use regmap_access_table
> 
> Change since version 3:
>  - Fix comments
>  - Don't put nct720"x" in the name, just call it nct7201
>  - Remove differential inputs until conversions are finished
>  - Add NCT7201_ prefix in all macros and avoid the tables
>  - Correct event threshold values in raw units
>  - Add with and without interrupt callback function to have the event
>    config part and one that doesn't
>  - Remove print an error message if regmap_wirte failed case
> 
> Change since version 2:
>  - Remvoe read-vin-data-size property, default use read word vin data
>  - Use regmap instead of i2c smbus API
>  - IIO should be IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW and _SCALE not _PROCESSED
>  - Use dev_xxx_probe in probe function and dev_xxx in other functions
>  - Use devm_iio_device_register replace of iio_device_register
>  - Use guard(mutex) replace of mutex_lock
>  - Use get_unaligned_le16 conversion API
> 
> Changes since version 1:
>  - Add new property in iio:adc binding document
>  - Add new driver for Nuvoton NCT720x driver
> 
> Eason Yang (2):
>   dt-bindings: iio: adc: add NCT7201 ADCs
>   iio: adc: add support for Nuvoton NCT7201
> 
>  .../bindings/iio/adc/nuvoton,nct7201.yaml     |  57 ++
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   2 +
>  drivers/iio/adc/Kconfig                       |  11 +
>  drivers/iio/adc/Makefile                      |   1 +
>  drivers/iio/adc/nct7201.c                     | 487 ++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 558 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/adc/nuvoton,nct7201.yaml
>  create mode 100644 drivers/iio/adc/nct7201.c
>